▲ 127 ▼ Spacious 24TB hard drive is available for a mere 1 cent per GB [$10/TB] — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB is back on sale for $249 (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/datahoarder@lemmy.world 28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (5 children) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (1 child) So it looks like my policy of "only buy Western Digital" is still the right one. But what's happening to HGST? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago They got bought out... By WDC. permalink fedilink source parent [–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago Wow I've been buying WDs for years because I have never had luck with others. Glad to see there's an actual data point for me and it's not just anecdotal. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Weren’t they also the ones that just broke up a massive counterfeiting ring of refurbished drives being passed off as new? Wonder if that contributed to their bad failure numbers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago Thanks for sharing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (1 child) So it looks like my policy of "only buy Western Digital" is still the right one. But what's happening to HGST? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago They got bought out... By WDC. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago They got bought out... By WDC. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago Wow I've been buying WDs for years because I have never had luck with others. Glad to see there's an actual data point for me and it's not just anecdotal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Weren’t they also the ones that just broke up a massive counterfeiting ring of refurbished drives being passed off as new? Wonder if that contributed to their bad failure numbers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago Thanks for sharing. permalink fedilink source parent
